Amazon Prime Video screen to direct and produce the new limited series
“The Underground Railroad,” which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
Colson Whitehead. The ten episode show tells the story of a slave named Cora Randall (
Thuso Mbedu) who escapes a Georgia plantation through the Underground Railroad. Randall discovers the path isn’t exactly what she expected, instead it’s an actual railroad full of engineers, conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels underneath the Southern ground.
On her journey to freedom with a newfound ally Caesar (
Aaron Pierce), Cora is being tracked by a bounty hunter named Ridgeway (
The inhumanity of slavery stains every frame of The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
“The Underground Railroad,” Barry Jenkins’ realization of Colson Whitehead’s novel, a limited series that is, well, great.
But not perfect. Even a filmmaker as gifted as Jenkins falls prey to the temptations of the lack of limits prestige cable offers. The 10-episode series, which streams on Amazon Prime Video beginning May 14, easily could have been trimmed. But the narrative gets away from Jenkins a little, especially in the middle when the focus shifts away from the enslaved woman trying to escape to the man trying to catch her. It s needed to tell the story, but goes too far down that path.
Rolling Stone ‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’ Gorgeous Journey Into American Darkness
The director’s 10-part adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an escaped slave is visually stunning and emotionally wrenching
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Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are painting an entirely different vision of American history than the one you most commonly find in textbooks and on museum walls. It’s an appropriate touch for a story that weaves in agonizingly real details from our horrible past of racist injustice with Whitehead’s rewriting of yesterday so that, for instance, the titular “underground” is a literal network of subterranean train tunnels that enslaved people like Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and Caesar (Aaron Pierre) use to escape the horrors of a lif
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